The week in pictures: 8 March 2013

A three-year-old orangutan drinks water from a soft drink can at a private zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. More than 3,000 wild great apes are illegally seized from the jungles of Africa and Southeast Asia each year, with links to organised wildlife trafficking, according to the 'Stolen Apes' report released in Thailand at the 16th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) held in Bangkok.Picture: EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT